recurring email alerts

On 15/04/14 01:14, John D. Alexander wrote:

I'm at a loss. Now I've got a client reporting /var/log/messages as unreadable and the server is showing a flapping status for msgs.  Group ownership for /var/log/messages is set to root:xymon with proper permissions, so it should be able to read it.  When I su to the xymon user, it can get to that file just fine.

Look at the IP address reporting the issue, possibly you have two systems reporting under the same name.

Regards,
Adam

There is nothing in analysis.cfg that is watching either /var/log/messages or /var/log/fail2ban.

I cleared msgs from the server.  Restarted the client.  The issue keeps coming back.

Any ideas?

John A.

*From:*Betsy Schwartz [mailto:user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Friday, April 11, 2014 6:44 PM
*To:* John D. Alexander
*Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
*Subject:* Re: [Xymon] recurring email alerts


I had that error once when I had a space after the file name in analysis.cfg

If you can't find that file name maybe there's a shell eval that includes it somewhere?


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On Apr 11, 2014, at 6:41 PM, "John D. Alexander" <user-9a0964743c57@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-9a0964743c57@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    My Xymon server keeps sending alerts for a system saying that
    /var/log/fail2ban.log is unreadable.

    Nothing I can find is testing for this file and the permissions
    are such that xymon can read it.

    Any clues on where to look to find what is causing this?

    Thanks.

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